Johann Friedrich Bottger

Johann Friedrich Bottger (1682-) was a gentleman of Prussia.

Biography
Johann Friedrich Bottger was born in 1682 in Vilnius, Lithuania, Poland-Lithuania to a family of Protestant Baltic Germans. Bottger became a factory master and gentleman scientist in the winter of 1705 and became a man in the employ of Prussia for the purposes of technological research. Bottger attended a college in Cracow in southern Poland in order to assist with the studying of new technology, and contributed to the advance of Prussia's prestige.